Frasi di Glen Cook

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 370)

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 60 (p. 419)

Origine: Sweet Silver Blues

Origine: Shadow Games

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 310)
Contesto: “What do you want, Blade. Why are you doing this?”
He shrugged, an uncharacteristic action. “There are many evils in the world. I guess I’ve chosen one for my personal crusade.”
“Why such a hatred for priests?”
He didn’t shrug. He didn’t give me a straight answer, either. “If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?”
That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains. But I left him his illusion. If he had one. I doubted he did. No more than a sword’s blade does.

Origine: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (pp. 192-193)

Origine: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 99, “By the Military Cemetery: Missing Persons” (p. 664)
Contesto: “It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.”
“Soldiers live,” I muttered.
“You’re turning that into a mantra.”
“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”

Origine: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 2, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 456)
Contesto: An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 367)
Contesto: I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 384)

Origine: Dreams of Steel

Origine: Chronicles of the Black Company

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 367)

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 135, “Taglios: The Mad Season” (p. 747)

Origine: Cold Copper Tears

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter (p. 430)

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 38, “Juniper: The Storm” (p. 390)

Origine: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 32 (p. 121)

Origine: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 5, “Harden” (p. 140)

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 86 (p. 236)

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 35 (p. 108)

Origine: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 69 (p. 517)

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 72, “Midway Between: The Rescuers” (p. 596)

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 29 (p. 332)

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 91 (p. 250)

Origine: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 6 (p. 31)

Origine: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 56, “Time Fading” (p. 686)